Release Notes

OpenMRS 2.2

Introducing OpenMRS 2.2

Several months ago, the OpenMRS developer community decided that we need=
ed a better release process. We agreed that we would aim to release OpenMRS twice a year, and the plat=
form annually. Our goal was to release OpenMRS 2.2 by March 2=
015. We missed that goal as there were some critical bugs identified in the=
User Acceptance Testing due to the shift in the platform version from 1.10=
to 1.11. In order to deliver a reliable/bug-free product there was a delay=
in release. Today, on April 23rd, I'm happy to announce the release of OpenMRS 2.2!

OpenMRS 2.2 includes the latest platform release i.e. 1.11.2 compared to=
1.10.0 and new versions of lots of modules.

This release doesn't bring many user-visible new features to the referen=
ce application (Except for the Chart Search feature and Appointment Schedul=
ing), but it has allowed us to tackle various issues in each module. =
It allows us to illustrate how an OpenMRS reference application release con=
tains hundreds of under-the-hood improvements to modules that implementers =
and developers can leverage as described in the previous release and gives =
us an idea of how it might continue in future.

I would like to specifically thank Wyclif Luyima, Ryan Yates,Darius Jazayeri, R=
afal Korytkowski, Burke Mamlin,=
Michael Downey,Daniel Kayiwa=
, Jaime Thomas, Joseph Kaweesi, Cintia D=
el Rio and the Infrastructure Team for making contributions at =
critical times and who made it possible to release properly.

And as mentioned earlier we had =
an extensive period and I would like to thank everyone who participated in =
it and allowed us to release a reliable product. Special thanks to Ada Yeung,Sara Armson, Mike Seaton, Craig A, Matthew=
Ssemakadde,Tharika and David DeSimone for taking a speci=
al interest and testing OpenMRS 2.2 either in the All Hands on Deck=
Event or individually.=
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Feature highlights from OpenMRS 2.2:

35 bundled Modules under the hood

Built on OpenMRS Platform 1.11.2 (just released a=
couple days ago)

Chart Search module (summer of code work by Joseph Kaweesi)

Appointment Scheduling Module

Numerous bug fixes and improvements(described in detai=
l below)

Contributors

Thanks to the complete list of code contributors to OpenMRS 2.2(apologie=
s if anyone's name has been missed):

See in JIRA<=
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